Day 1: Hanoi arrival
Pick up at the airport and transfer to Hanoi city center for check-in. Free time to explore the Old Quarter area and overnight at hotel.
Day 2: Hanoi city tour
After breakfast at hotel, tour guide and driver will pick you up at 8:00 am then transfer to visit Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum, One-Pillar Pagoda, Tran Quoc Pagoda, and Vietnam museum of ethnology, visit Temple of Literature. Continue visiting Hoan Kiem Lake - Ngoc Son Temple. Enjoy a cyclo ride around Hanoi Old Quarters at the end of the day and drop off at your hotel. Overnight at hotel in Hanoi.
Day 3: Hanoi - Ninh Binh
After breakfast at hotel, tour guide and driver will pick you up at the hotel then transfer on the expressway from Hanoi to Ninh Binh in comfort and time-saving.
The first stop is Tam Coc town, take the bikes for local discovery with 3 stopovers in the bike ride: Bich Dong Pagoda, the Dam Khe local village, and an outdoor museum.
Around 12.15: Have lunch at local restaurant. After lunch and rest, start cruising on Tam Coc in nearly 2 hours by the hand-rowed boats.
15.00: move to the historical land of Trang An – Hoa Lu, is the first place of original capital of The Grande Viet. Leaving Hoa Lu town, we will move to the Bamboo homestay where you will have a relaxing time, enjoy the drinks while watching the sundowns.
17.00: return to Hanoi by expressway.
18.30-19.00: Back to the hotel. The third night at hotel in Hanoi
Day 4: Hanoi – Halong Bay cruising
Morning: After breakfast at hotel, pick up from your hotel and transfer to Halong (around 08:00 - 08:30 am)
At noon: Arrive at Halong Bay, tendering to the cruise, welcome on board and check in your cabin. Enjoy delicious lunch at the restaurant. Afternoon activities might include a visit to one cave, a floating village for bamboo boat riding, relaxing,swimming, kayaking. Join a cooking class or a sunset cocktail party before dinner time. Overnight in private cabin on a sharing cruise.
Day 5: Halong - Hanoi
Optional to join a Tai Chi Class on the sundeck or photo hunting in the early morning. After breakfast, other activities might include (if not arranged on the first day): visiting the cave, cooking class or climbing to the top of an island for panoramic view of Halong Bay. Then check out and go back to harbor.
Around 12.30 Transfer back to Hanoi. Arrive at Hanoi around 16:30.
Day 6: Hanoi departure
Have breakfast and free till driver takes you to the airport for departure flight.
